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February 2013
Blazblue: Continuum Shift
Blazblue (pronounced "Blaze Blue") is a PS Vita game, but it came out first on the PS3. It's a 1 vs 1 fighting game. This is not the type of game that I would normally buy for two reasons: I don't really like fighting games that much, and it's anime style is not normally something appealing to me. But I'd heard such good things about it that I thought I'd give it a try. It's actually really good! The story mode is more interesting and complex than most games (which is super rare for a fighting game!) and I was able to get good with some characters without an insane amount of effort. It also had a fun sense of humor throughout the story, which was a nice change of pace from the somewhat over-serious main plot. I'll never be able to execute some of those combos, though. . .